The Internationalisation of British Start-up Companies in High-Technology Industries

Bürgel, Oliver

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-57671-3

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“…Early-stage equity funding is not as readily available in Europe as in the U.S. (Lockett, Murray, and Wright, 2002), with a particularly limited supply of venture capital in Belgium (Bygrave and Quill, 2007), and young fi rms have limited opportunities to go public (Martin, Sunley, and Turner, 2002). Less available capital results in longer development times for hightechnology fi rms (Bürgel, 1999). 2 We focus on hightechnology sectors because the dynamism in these sectors makes knowledge-building and the development of capabilities particularly salient (Eisenhardt and Schoonhoven, 1990).…”

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Learning from experience and learning from others: how congenital and interorganizational learning substitute for experiential learning in young firm internationalization

Bruneel

Yli‐Renko

Clarysse

2010

Strategic Entrepreneurship

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This article addresses a critical issue for entrepreneurs and managers pursuing internationalization strategies: how fi rms can accumulate the knowledge and skills required for successful international expansion. Specifi cally, we examine how young fi rms may compensate for their lack of fi rm-level international experience by utilizing other sources of knowledge. Drawing on organizational learning theory, we develop an integrative framework that looks at the joint and interactive effects of experiential learning by the fi rm, the management team's pre-start-up international experience (i.e., congenital learning), and interorganizational learning from key exchange partners (customers, suppliers, investors, etc.). Utilizing empirical data on 114 young, technology-based fi rms in Flanders, Belgium, we fi nd that a fi rm's level of international experience negatively moderates the effects of congenital and interorganizational learning on the extent of internationalization. That is, the lower a fi rm's experiential learning, the more signifi cant the effects of the start-up team's prior international knowledge base and the knowledge and skills acquired through key partners. These results make important theoretical and empirical contributions to the international entrepreneurship and organizational learning literatures by highlighting some of the factors underlying learning advantages of newness that facilitate the internationalization of young fi rms and by explicating substitutive interrelationships among different learning mechanisms. Copyright © 2010 Strategic Management Society. INTRODUCTIONInternationalization is a complex and uncertain process that poses signifi cant challenges for any fi rm. For young fi rms, the expansion into foreign markets is a particularly important and intricate decision-internationalization is increasingly a competitive necessity for such fi rms, especially in technology-based industries, but resource constraints and liabilities of newness exacerbate the challenges and risks involved (Autio, Sapienza, and Almeida, 2000;Oviatt and McDougall, 1994;Sapienza et al., 2006). Entering foreign environments means that the fi rm's existing knowledge and capabilities are often not applicable, and the fi rm has to develop new knowledge and capabilities in order to succeed Vahlne, 1977, 1990; Keywords: internationalization; young fi rms; organizational learning; interorganizational learning *Correspondence to: Helena Yli-Renko, University of Southern California, Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Bridge Hall One, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0801, U.S.A. E-mail: hylirenko@marshall.usc.edu Oviatt, 1996;Sapienza et al., 2006). Accordingly, international business (IB) research has increasingly zeroed in on the critical question of how fi rms accumulate the knowledge and skills required for international expansion (e.g., Barkema, Bell, and Pennings, 1996;Lu and Beamish, 2004;Nadolska and Barkema, 2007;Petersen, Pedersen, and Lyles, 2008). In addressing this question, the bulk of extant IB resear...

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Learning from experience and learning from others: how congenital and interorganizational learning substitute for experiential learning in young firm internationalization

Bruneel

Yli‐Renko

Clarysse

2010

Strategic Entrepreneurship

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“…Further, each firm had to have 10% or more of their sales derived from export. Whilst this may appear a low proportion the figure of 5% is commonly used as a benchmark to determine an export company (Bürgel, 2000). Table 1 summarizes the profiles of each case study in the research.…”

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Entrepreneurial decision-making in internationalization: Propositions from mid-size firms

Perks

Hughes

2008

International Business Review

104

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“…Damit ähnelt das der Stellenbesetzung zu Grunde liegende EPRG-Konzept vom inkrementellen Verlauf der Internationalisierungsprozesstheorie der Uppsala Schule (Johanson/Wiedersheim 1975;Johanson/Vahlne 1977, 1990 Reuber/Fischer 1997;Coviello/Munro 1995), die internationale Erfahrung des Gründungsmanagements (Bloodgood et al 1996;Reuber/Fischer 1997;Westhead et al 2001;McDougall et al 2003;Johnson 2004) und die Technologieintensität (Jones 1999;Bürgel 2000;Yli-Renke et al 2002;Enßlinger 2003;Knight/ Cavusgil 2004) …”

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Internationale Stellenbesetzungspolitik in Early Internationalizers: Jenseits inkrementeller Pfade?

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Steinbach²

2006

German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Pe

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The Internationalisation of British Start-up Companies in High-Technology Industries

Cited by 13 publications

References 101 publications

Learning from experience and learning from others: how congenital and interorganizational learning substitute for experiential learning in young firm internationalization

Learning from experience and learning from others: how congenital and interorganizational learning substitute for experiential learning in young firm internationalization

Entrepreneurial decision-making in internationalization: Propositions from mid-size firms

Internationale Stellenbesetzungspolitik in Early Internationalizers: Jenseits inkrementeller Pfade?

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